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With all the talk of how bad rent controls are here's a story of how good they actually could be. The UK could learn much from the Swedish policy on housing, after all the government seems wildly keen to adop...

Headline news in The Guardian this morning, however it comes as no surprise. To be honest this has been an issue for far longer than this PwC report suggests.
It is to be welcomed that there's comment on impr...

Rents in England are almost half of tenants’ average take-home pay, according to an official report on the state of the country’s housing.
Figures in the latest English Housing Survey, based on research ...

Berlin’s brand new rent control laws are already bringing down costs. That is the conclusion announced yesterday by Germany’s number one real estate site after tallying its latest figures.
Barely a month...

George Osborne is to raise social housing rents for hundreds of thousands of tenants by £70 a week writes Nigel Nelson in the Sunday People.
Those in council homes and housing association properties will be...

Capping rents could force landlords out of the market and make life harder for tenants if it is done too bluntly, the housing charity Shelter has warned.
In a report commissioned by the charity and shared wi...

The UK is in breach of its own United Nations human rights commitment to provide people with adequate homes because the housing crisis is so serious, a consortium of leading housing charities has warned. They c...

UK tenants pay more in rent than any other Europeans. Private tenants in the UK are paying higher rents than those anywhere else in Europe and spending a greater chunk of the average pay packet, according to re...

The private rent rate increase means a property let for £500 a month in March 2014 would be rented for £510.50 in March 2015. #tenants in private rented homes are facing the highest rent increases in more tha...

More than a million people now live in rented properties in Wales Related Stories Plans to renovate the rental sector in Wales are to be announced by the Welsh government. However, there are concerns that they ...

What We Think…

With the housing situation in the UK seemingly becoming beyond an entire generations affordability the term Generation rent was forged. It describes how that generation has been priced out of the market for property and are locked into an unforgiving and inflexible rental market .
It’s shocking to see how many websites there are out there that use the term Generation Rent to inform landlords and homeowners how best to exploit them.
That’s why we chose to launch Generation-rent.com, to give those who are trapped in this demoralising position a voice and a place to gain further insight into why this has happened to them.